Gate.



No. 647,943. Patented Apr. 24, I900.

W. H. COFFMAN.

GATE.

(Application filed July 13, 1899.)

NiT ED SATES Area I GATE.

$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,943, dated April24, 1900.

Application filed July 13, 1899. Serial No. 723,724. (No model.)

capable of enabling a gate to be readily op-- erated at a distance fromit and adapted to open the gate away from the operator. r

. The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a gate constructed inaccordance with this invention.

tional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of theinner portion of one of the operating-levers.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures ofthe drawings. r

1 designates a swinging gate hinged to a support composed of a verticalpost 2 and a horizontal bar 3, located near the top of the post andextending from opposite sides thereof to form a pair of supporting-arms.The lower end of the gate is provided with an eye 4, which receives anupwardly-extending pintle 5 of the post 2, whereby the gate is hinged tothe support at the bottom thereof. The upper end of the inner end bar 6of the gate is provided with a pintle 7, which is arranged within asubstantially triangular frame 8, projecting from the upper portion ofthe post and adapted to permit the gate to be tilted rearward in openingit, whereby the gate is disengaged from a keeper 9 of a latch-post 10.The triangular frame 8 consists of forwardlyconverging side portions, atransverse c011- necting portion 11, and a pair of rearwardlyextendingarms 12. The transverse connecting portion is arranged on the front faceof the post 2, and the rearwardly-extending Fig. 2 is a horizontal secarms embrace the side, faces of the post and are secured to the same bysuitable fastening devices, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of theaccompanying drawings;

The upper portion of the inner end bar of the gate is rounded, and apair of operatingsupport, extend from the guide-pulleys in oppositedirections and are secured at their outer ends to substantially L-shapedoperating-levers 16. The L-shaped operating-levers have long endsdisposed longitudinally of the roadway and adapted to be grasped to openand close the gate, and the shorter arms 17 depend from the innerportions of the levers and are fulcrumed'on posts 18, located atopposite sides of the post 2. The

arms of the levers are constructed of separate pieces secured togetheradjacent to their inner ends to form projections 19. and 20. Theprojection 19, which extends upward, is located above the longitudinalarm of the lever and is provided with a groove to receive the flexibleconnection, which is attached to l the longitudinal arm at a pointbeyond the projection 19. The other projection 20 extends inwardlongitudinally of the long arm of the lever and is provided with a notch21, adapted to receive the flexible connection when the outer portion ofthe lever is swung downward sufficiently to carry the said projection 20into engagement with the rope or cable 13. As the flexible connectionscross the supporting-frame at the back thereof and extend around thepost 2, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings,the gate is opened and swung away from the operator by depressing eitherone of the operating-levers. After a person passes through the gatewaythe gate is closed by de pressing the other operating-lever.

The keeper 9 consists of a pair of beveled projections, and the latchmay be of any desired construction; but as shown it consists of adepressible spring 22, mounted on the end of the gate and adapted toengage the keeper and fit between the projections, which are spacedapart, as clearly'shown in Fig. 1.

The invention has the following advantages: The gate, which is simpleand comparatively inexpensive in construction, is positive and reliablein operation and is adapted to be readily operated at a distance fromeither side of it, and when operated it always opens away from theoperator. When one of the operating-levers is depressed, the gate istilted rearwardly to disengage the latch from the keeper and itissimultaneously swunglaterally by the. flexible connection between thelevers and theupper end of the inner end bar of the gate.

Changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details ofconstruction, such as vary ing the means for connecting the lower endsof the ropes or cables to the gate, may be resorted to without departingfrom the spirit or sacrificing any part of the advantages of theinvention.

What is claimed is 1. The combination of a support, a gate hinged to thesupport, flexible connections extending from opposite sides of the gateand connected with the same, and the substantially L-shapedoperating-levers fulorumed at one end and having the connections securedto them adjacent to their angles, said levers having their anglesengaging the' connections at points between the ends thereof, substantially described.

2. The combination of a post 2, a horizontal bar 3 secured to the postand extended from opposite sides thereof, guide-pulleys mounted on thebar and located at the sides of the post 2, an open frame projectingfrom the front of the said post 2, a gate hinged at its bottom andprovided at its top with a pintle arranged within the said frame,flexible connections extending from the gate,passing around the pulleysand crossing the post 2 at the back thereof, and substantially L-.-shaped operating-levers fulcrumed at the outer ends of their short arms,said operatinglevers having their angles engaging the fiexi= bleconnections, substantially as described.

3. The combination of' a support, a gate hinged to the support, pulleysmounted on the support at opposite sides of the gate, flexibleconnections extending from the gate, passing around the pulleys andcrossing the support at the back thereof, and the substantially L-shaped operating-levers having short arms fulcrumed at their outer ends,said operatinglevers being provided at their angles with projections,grooved to receive the flexible connections, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses. I

.WILLIAM H. COFFMAN.

Witnesses:

PETER BALHVINE, WM. MILLER.

